Nonabelian Debye screening, tsunami waves, and worldline fermions
| dc.creator | Pisarski, Robert D. | |
| dc.date | 1997-10-15 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:02:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:02:37Z | |
| dc.description | I give a pedagogical review of the derivation for the effective lagrangian for nonabelian Debye screening, or hard thermal loops. Following Kelly, Liu, Lucchesi, and Manuel, I give the simplest derivation possible, using classical kinetic theory. The result is valid not just for a thermal, but for an arbitrary initial distributions. I use this to study the evolution, at short times, of a gluonic ``tsunami wave''. I also suggest how classical kinetic theory may arise at one loop order. Using the wordline representation of the one loop effective action, I follow D'Hoker and Gagné to replace the Wilson line by an integral over worldline fermions. A bilinear of these worldline fermions naturally defines a nonabelian charge, whose equation of motion is Wong's equation. | |
| dc.description | 16 pages, LaTeX, requires crckapb.sty. To appear in the proceedings of the International School of Astrophysics ``D. Chalonge'', Erice, Italy, Sept. 4-15, 1997; also based on a talk given at the RIKEN BNL Workshop on ``Non-equilibrium many body dynamics'', Upton, N.Y., Sept. 23-25, 1997 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9710370 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9710370 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/47305 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology | |
| dc.title | Nonabelian Debye screening, tsunami waves, and worldline fermions | |
| dc.type | text |